Bloody Scotland Crime Writing Festival To Launch The Glengoyne Short Story Writing Competition
Published Date: 8th March 2012
PHOTOCALL & PRESS INVITATION
What: Launch of Bloody Scotland’s Glengoyne Short Story Writing Competition
When: 1:30pm – 2:45pm Thursday 8 March 2012, light lunch will be served
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1:30-2:00pm: Photo opportunity with Alex Gray in Rally Bar with organisers of Bloody Scotland Festival
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2:00– 2:15pm – Introduction to Bloody Scotland’s Short Story Writing Competition by Alex Gray, with Bloody Scotland organisers Gordon Brown & Kyle McRae.
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2:15-2:45pm Q&A, 1:1 interview opportunities, with light lunch served
Where: Rally Bar, Blythswood Square Hotel, 11 Blythswood Square, Glasgow, G2 4AD
Who: Scottish crime writing authors and Bloody Scotland Festival Organisers Alex Gray and Gordon Brown (author) will be joined by Kyle MacRae (publisher Blasted Heath) Ian Weir, Marketing Director, Glengoyne Highland Single Malt Whisky.
Other Scottish crime writers will also be present (confirmed writers include Len Wanner and Craig Robertson). www.bloodyscotland.com
SUMMARY
125 years since Sherlock Holmes emerged from the imagination of Edinburgh’s Arthur Conan Doyle, best selling Scottish crime author Alex Gray, will officially launch the search for the latest undiscovered talent in crime fiction: The Glengoyne Short Story Writing Competition.
A crime scene in Alex Gray’s latest novel, A Pound of Flesh, Blythswood Square Hotel will be the backdrop for the launch of the new writing competition. Alex will be joined by various well known crime authors supporting the inaugural Bloody Scotland International Crime Writing Festival.
The competition will be open amateur writers across globe, giving entrants the chance for their work read by some of the most influential people within the crime writing industry and digitally published by BlastedHeath.
With even JK Rowling now turning her hand to crime writing, the genre has never been so popular in Scotland and the rest of the world. UK retail sales alone for crime fiction are worth over £143 million.
Full details on the competition prizes how to enter will be announced at the launch: www.bloodyscotland.com/competition
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